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By Devika Koppikar Growing up in the Deep South in the aftermath of desegregation, my classmates often asked me why my mother wore a “red dot” on her forehead. Others asked me why, as an “Indian,” I didn’t wear feathers. It was my lifelong desire to dispel these misconceptions that led me to the screening of “Not a Feather, But …

By Devika Koppikar The Indiaspora Inaugural Ball 2013, the first Indian American inaugural ball, featured more than 1,300 guests at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, January 19, 2013. The event began with a VIP reception featuring prominent political and business leaders in the Indian community.